安然公司前CEO出狱

安然公司的前CEO杰弗里·斯基林曾在史上最大的公司诈骗案中扮演了重要角色，如今他出狱了。

斯基林起初因其在安然公司丑闻中的角色被判入狱24年（该刑期在2013年减到14年），现在他已经离开了他称之为家的阿拉巴马州最低安全级别联邦监狱。据美国联邦监狱管理局的记录来看，他被重新安置在德克萨斯州圣安东尼奥的一个“居住性复归中心”，也即一般所谓的中途之家。

斯基林在狱中待了11年，是安然案被告中服役时间最长的。（排第二的是安然前首席财务官安德鲁·法斯托，他在狱中待了5年后获释。）

在经过4个月的审讯后，斯基林于2006年5月被定罪。2002年时，斯基林是全美第五大公司的领导人，但一份独立的审查发现，安然公司的高管们利用不入账的合伙公司和虚增股民利润的方式窃取了成百万上千万美元。安然员工和其他相关人被鼓动投资于公司股票，结果当安然倒闭时，数千人名下的数十亿美元的退休金凭空消失。斯基林用他的行政套房换了一处监禁地，在那里他若买杯咖啡都可能被单独关禁闭。

斯基林出狱后将做什么还不清楚，但被收容在中途之家的人一般会获得工作，并在最多3年内要向缓刑监督官汇报。中途之家的设立是为了帮助出狱者重新适应现代社会和重建家庭关系。

相较于斯基林入狱之时，当今世界已大为不同，他入狱时这世上还没有ipad、Spotify、Kickstarter或者优步这些玩意。（财富中文网）

译者：宣峰

Jeffrey Skilling, the former Enron CEO who played a role in one of the biggest corporate fraud cases in history, is out of prison.

Skilling, who was originally sentenced to a 24-year term for his part in the company’s collapse (the sentence was reduced to 14 years in 2013), has left the Alabama minimum security federal prison he has called home. He has re-located to a “residential reentry management” facility, more commonly known as a halfway house, in San Antonio, Texas, according to U.S. Bureau of Prisons records.

Skilling served 11 years in prison, the longest of any Enron defendant. (Ranking second is former Enron CFO Andy Fastow, who was released after about five years in prison.)

He was originally convicted in May 2006, after a four-month trial. In 2002, Skilling was the head of America’s fifth-largest company, but an independent review found executives pocketed millions of dollars from off-the-book partnerships and inflated profits to shareholders. Employees and others were encouraged to invest in the company’s stock, meaning when Enron collapsed, billions of dollars in retirement savings (as well as the jobs) of thousands of people vanished. Skilling exchanged the executive suite for a place where he risked solitary confinement if he bought a cup of coffee.

What Skilling will do next is uncertain, but inmates of halfway houses traditionally get jobs and report to probation officers for up to three years. The facilities are meant to help prisoners reacclimate to modern society and reestablish relationships with their families.

It’s a much different world than the one Skilling left. When he first reported to prison there was no such thing as the iPad, Spotify, Kickstarter or Uber.